246 THE GREAT REHEARSAL

walking representatives of the ratifying states "entered the tern*
p!es and hung their flags on the corinthian columns to which they
respectively belonged/" At the end of the ceremonies the New
Roofj with the tea representatives, was brought back "in great
triumph and with loud Huzzas to the State House/' where it
stood for days to the admiration of the public.

With the New Roof marched the Architects and House Car-
penters, four hundred and fifty of them, and the Saw Makers and
File Cutters, the first body of tradesmen to appear in the Pro-
cession. The Federal Edifice was an exhibit of their art and craft
The Manufacturing Society, No. 293 was another industrial
exhibit with a motto: *May the Union Government .protect the
manufactures of America" On a carriage thirty feet long and
thirteen wide were a carding machine worked by two persons;
a spinning machine of eighty spindles worked by a woman, "a
native of and instructed in this city>?; a lace loom on which a man
was weaving "a rich scarlet and white livery lace"; and a loom
on which a man was weaving jean with a fly-shuttle. "Behind
the looms was fixed the apparatus of Mr. Hewson, printing mus-
lins of an elegant chintz pattern, and Mr. Lang designing and
cutting prints for shauls; on the right was Mrs. Hewson and her
4 daughters pencilling -a pie'ce of very neat sprigged chintz of
Mr. Hewson's printing, all dressed in cottons of their own manu-
facture/* Behind the carriage walked about a hundred Weavers,
and the Cotton Card Makers.

This display probably attracted more attention than the Penn-
sylvania Society of the Cincinnati, and the detachments of light
infantry that came at intervals, and the Marine Society: eighty-
nine shipmasters with quadrants, trumpets, spyglasses, charts,
and other implements of their profession. But there was no over-"
looking the Federal Ship Union, "perfectly proportioned and
complete throughout, decorated with emblematical carving, and
finished even to a stroke of the painter s brush. And what is truly
astonishing, she was begun and compleated in less than four days,
viz, begun at 11 o'clock on Monday morning, the 30th of June,
and on the field of rendezvous on Thursday morning, fully pre-
pared to join in the Grand Procession. The workmanship and
appearance of this beautiful object commanded universal ad-
miration and applause, and did high honor to the artists of Phila-
delphia, who were concerned-in her construction."